What was your favorite toy as a kid?

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I had a lot of barbies. I liked dressing them up and lining them up against the wall but I never "played" with them

Lee Majors action figure with his bionic eye

^ they can make him better than he was - better ... stronger ... faster

Oh! My brother and I each had one of those.
As of several years ago they were still at Mom & Dad's house.
Was a little bit down the favorites list.
The various translucent colored fittings for the lazer were interesting.

Had some of those too!

Have a really strong desire to answer this question but don't know HOW to.

With Dad being in the Navy and getting transferred about every other year we didn't have an excess of toys as there was a household weight limit to stay below & yet we also didn't have a shortage of toys, at least not that we sensed.

We had several different categories of toys there in the 1960s and 1970s but my mind is going blank as to what to give as a favorite.

What we did have in what I'll call my mid-childhood years (around 4th, 5th, 6th, grade) in the order they come to mind, which might or might not represent any level of priority:

Various wooden building block and construction toys.
Those foot tall GI Joe figures.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.
Airfix 1/72, 1/76 scale, also called "HO/OO" scale, plastic soldiers. (roughly 1 inch, 25mm, tall) Those little guys really got around; out on the driveway, under the shrubbery, in mud puddles, on those building block towers, in my pockets to school, and more.
Various space toys including those mentioned in 2 previous posts.
Can remember particularly liking a bunch of little plastic airplanes from around the world in various colors which came in a bag. They had their designations/names in raised lettering underneath their wings.
Can remember particularly liking some plastic astronauts in various poses including seated in red, white, blue, plastic and some accessories. Figures were what seemed to be about 1.5 inches, 40mm, tall.

I started building plastic models, usually airplanes, tanks, spacecraft, ships, when I was around 5 years old.
They can be kind of considered both toys and Not toys.

Back to the wooden building blocks and other construction toys:
Parents had to go to a lot of various events for Dad's Navy career and my brother and I would typically combine parts from all those to build a tower as tall as the baby sitter.
And then of course slowly make it fall down.

It wasn't a very popular toy overall. They don't sell for much on ebay. Unless they're like new in the box.

wooden building block
Later came the magnetic version
Later it is the circuit version

I use to build animals, or tornadoes!

I never went anywhere without a football I also loved my bike.

Me too Well, as for me, I DID play with them - from time to time - but it was always a VERY (!) rare occurence

When I was a young child in turn, younger than five, I used to have also two other favorite toys - one of them was a plastic doll - one made of a single piece of white plastic, holding a blue baby rattle. Another one was a tiny red toy car with green wheels.

Choosing one is a little hard, but:

Marbles, I guess. They were cheap. I liked rolling the smooth ones in my hands (I still do it). I used and still use common Cat's Eyes as slingshot ammo for fun too. I had an alright collection that I lost.

^ cool! i liked looking at marbles - the glass kind with the wavy stuff inside and wondering how they were made - I also liked the “marble run games” both the old wooden kind and the new plastic ones.